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Will Smith gives first awards acceptance speech since Oscars controversy

LOS ANGELES — Will Smith delivered his first acceptance speech since the 2022 Oscars after he received the Beacon Award on Wednesday at the African American Film Critics Association Awards.

Los Angeles Times

Harry and Meghan’s foundation honours civil rights activist

Nabiha Syed, CEO of The Markup, won the 2023 award for her work on race and technology.

The Independent UK

Brittney Griner urges the return of U.S. detainees abroad at NAACP Image Awards

In one of her first public appearances since her release from a Russian prison, Griner took the stage to thank everyone for their support and to remind the audience of those still detained abroad.

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Serena Williams to be honored at NAACP Image Awards

The NAACP announced Thursday that Williams will receive the Jackie Robinson Sports Award during the ceremony, which will air live Saturday on BET.

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Serena Williams to Receive Honor at NAACP Image Awards

Serena Williams will be honored for her tennis achievements, business success and efforts to uplift the community at the NAACP Image Awards this weekend. The NAACP announced Thursday that Williams will receive the Jackie Robinson Sports award during the ceremony, which will air live Saturday on BET. The award recognizes…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Serena Williams to receive honor at NAACP Image Awards

Serena Williams will be honored for her tennis achievements, business success and efforts to uplift the community at the NAACP Image Awards this weekend

The Independent UK

Nevada officer filmed slamming high school student to the ground and kneeling on him as he recorded video

A school police officer was captured on cellphone video on 9 February slamming a high school student to the ground and pinning him underneath his knee outside a high school in the Las Vegas suburbs

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Nevada officer slams student recording police, kneels on him

A school police officer was captured on cellphone video on Feb. 9 slamming a high school student to the ground and pinning him underneath his knee outside a high school in the Las Vegas suburbs

The Independent UK

Missouri activists seek more wrongful conviction hearings

As racial justice activists in Missouri celebrate the overturned conviction of Lamar Johnson, they’re questioning why other inmates with credible innocence claims aren’t getting the chance to make their cases in court

The Independent UK

New Jersey groups fight power plants and wait for environmental justice law

Residents of largely minority areas in New Jersey are fighting three proposed gas-fired power plants as they wait for the state’s environmental law _ signed with great fanfare nearly three years ago _ to take full effect

The Independent UK

Autopsy: Death of ex-state NAACP president ruled a suicide

Autopsy results show that a former president of the North Carolina branch of the NAACP died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound

The Independent UK

Joyce Brown became her own advocate for breast cancer treatment

Joyce Brown, Ph.D., has spent 40 years leading philanthropic and community organizations, earning a coveted Rosa Parks Award from her local NAACP chapter among other honors.

Chicago Sun-Times

As the Sierra Club reckons with its past, a new leader charts a more inclusive future

After a conflict and reckoning stemming from its controversial past, the Sierra Club had to look inward. Can Ben Jealous bring the organization into the future?

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Judge removes public defender in Atlanta Public Schools cheating case

ATLANTA — After more than three years of appeals, a judge removed the public defender representing the remaining six defendants in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating case.

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W.E.B. Du Bois, Black History Month and the importance of African American studies

The opening days of Black History Month 2023 have coincided with controversy about the teaching and broader meaning of African American studies.

The Independent UK

Civil rights groups seek halt to Missouri execution

The president of the national NAACP is urging Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to halt the execution of Raheem Taylor, who is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for the deaths of his girlfriend and her three children

The Conversation

Meet Bayard Rustin, often-forgotten civil rights activist, gay rights advocate, union organizer, pacifist and man of compassion for all in trouble

As I began writing “Bayard Rustin: American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me not to “fall in love.”

The Independent UK

Officer involved in Breonna Taylor shooting responds to outrage over video played at GOP event in Kentucky

Diners inside a Kentucky restaurant said they were forced to hear ‘graphic’ video from an upstairs event where the guest of honour was one of three officers who fired into the woman’s home in 2020

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Philly NAACP protests Union League honor for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

PHILADELPHIA — Hours before Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was set to be honored at the Union League in Philadelphia, demonstrators decried the award, calling it a “slap in the face” to Black and brown people.

Tribune News Service

American Airlines faces a flurry of racial discrimination complaints

American Airlines is facing accusations of racial discrimination after removing two Black celebrities from flights during the last week and being sued in federal court by a Black passenger for also being kicked off a flight.

Tribune News Service

Dan Rodricks: An end to racism? Ben Jealous believes it will happen

Since his unsuccessful run for Maryland governor against Larry Hogan in 2018, Benjamin Todd Jealous, former president of the NAACP, has kept up the pace he established as a scholar, activist and entrepreneur before trying politics. He served as president of People for the American Way, has a professorship at…

Salon

Breonna Taylor raid tape aired at diner

The NAACP of Bowling Green-Warren County condemned the event, calling it "threatening and inappropriate"

Tribune News Service

He spent 7 years in a small California jail. Now he’s free, and wondering what’s next

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Just before Harvest Davidson walked out of a correctional facility for the first time in almost seven years, a guard said to him something he’ll remember:

Tribune News Service

Biden speech at Ebenezer to bring focus to King’s legacy, likely to president’s as well

ATLANTA — Many U.S. presidents have stopped by Ebenezer Baptist Church to pay honor to its former pastor, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., usually in events around the time of his birthday. But on Sunday, President Joe Biden will become the first of them to do so from the…

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‘Wakanda Forever’ Scores 12 NAACP Image Award Nominations

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” earned 12 NAACP Image Awards nominations on Thursday, while “The Woman King” and “Abbott Elementary” will enter next month’s ceremony as other top nominees. The “Black Panther” sequel — which found blockbuster success — led all film nominees. The Marvel film delved into the concept of…

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